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Want Better Pay? Learn to Sit in Front of a Computer

28 points by SQL2219 9y ago

jdavis703 9y ago
Seems like if you want startup ideas, it would be good to look at these "low screen time" jobs and figure out how computers could make workers more productive, e.g. automated lawn mowers for gardeners.
- njharman 9y ago
  > and figure out how computers could make workers more productive Meh. Why half ass it? Figure out how computers could make workers obsolete. Cause someone else will/is.
drpossum 9y ago
I saw this and I'm like "oh shit this is going to tell me to fix my posture". Thank god it didn't
Upvoter33 9y ago
Want Better Pay? Stand next to a person having a heart attack with a scalpel in your hand. Our research shows that these persons ("surgeons" in the vernacular) make many hundreds of thousands of dollars each year!
- pcurve 9y ago
  radiologists make good money without blood and knife.. well at least in the u.s. :)
  - jasonmp85 9y ago
    Until their skills are outsourced to imaging clinics abroad (maybe you mean interventional radiology, dunno)…
    - killjoywashere 9y ago
      Turns out there aren't all that many radiologists outside the US the are US qualified. And to release the results in the US, it has to come from a US qualified pathologist.
      - f00_ 9y ago
        Deep learning tho haha literally the next page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15709199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15709199
    - ggg9990 9y ago
      More likely to AIs, although the medical lobby is quite strong and will probably manage to get the benefits of AIs but still require a radiologist to certify.
fourfaces 9y ago
Want better pay? Kill the intelligent robots or kill our current forms of capitalism.
- deleted 9y ago
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- john_moscow 9y ago
  USSR crash survivor here. Believe me, there are things worse than the current form of capitalism. Besides, the trouble isn't about capitalism per se, our economy is simply in another stagnant stretch, where the corporations with formalized models and piles of cash perform better than lean and smart startups. As soon as another disruptive tech appears on the horizon, the history will repeat itself - the dinosaurs will be too slow to follow and new Microsoft and Apple will arise.
- norlys 9y ago
  In Europe (at least Scandinavia and Germany), the discussion about unconditional basic income is becoming a thing now :) When our work gets more and more effective, either 1) the cost of living for all individuals drop or 2) a few people benefit and get really, really rich while those whose jobs are less needed drop income. The latter is what's happening right now. But does a society want that?
itsybitsyspider 9y ago
> Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links (...) I'm surprised that wsj.com spam is doing so well on HN.
- eighthnate 9y ago
  One of the moderators said that news organizations like wsj and nytimes were "standard" on HN. So they get special treatment - even when the articles are behind paywalls or post clickbait nonsense.

28 points by SQL2219 9y ago

Seems like if you want startup ideas, it would be good to look at these "low screen time" jobs and figure out how computers could make workers more productive, e.g. automated lawn mowers for gardeners.

njharman 9y ago
> and figure out how computers could make workers more productive Meh. Why half ass it? Figure out how computers could make workers obsolete. Cause someone else will/is.

drpossum 9y ago

I saw this and I'm like "oh shit this is going to tell me to fix my posture". Thank god it didn't

Upvoter33 9y ago

Want Better Pay? Stand next to a person having a heart attack with a scalpel in your hand. Our research shows that these persons ("surgeons" in the vernacular) make many hundreds of thousands of dollars each year!

pcurve 9y ago
radiologists make good money without blood and knife.. well at least in the u.s. :)
- jasonmp85 9y ago
  Until their skills are outsourced to imaging clinics abroad (maybe you mean interventional radiology, dunno)…
  - killjoywashere 9y ago
    Turns out there aren't all that many radiologists outside the US the are US qualified. And to release the results in the US, it has to come from a US qualified pathologist.
    - f00_ 9y ago
      Deep learning tho haha literally the next page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15709199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15709199
  - ggg9990 9y ago
    More likely to AIs, although the medical lobby is quite strong and will probably manage to get the benefits of AIs but still require a radiologist to certify.

fourfaces 9y ago

Want better pay? Kill the intelligent robots or kill our current forms of capitalism.

deleted 9y ago
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john_moscow 9y ago
USSR crash survivor here. Believe me, there are things worse than the current form of capitalism. Besides, the trouble isn't about capitalism per se, our economy is simply in another stagnant stretch, where the corporations with formalized models and piles of cash perform better than lean and smart startups. As soon as another disruptive tech appears on the horizon, the history will repeat itself - the dinosaurs will be too slow to follow and new Microsoft and Apple will arise.
norlys 9y ago
In Europe (at least Scandinavia and Germany), the discussion about unconditional basic income is becoming a thing now :) When our work gets more and more effective, either 1) the cost of living for all individuals drop or 2) a few people benefit and get really, really rich while those whose jobs are less needed drop income. The latter is what's happening right now. But does a society want that?

itsybitsyspider 9y ago

> Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links (...) I'm surprised that wsj.com spam is doing so well on HN.

eighthnate 9y ago
One of the moderators said that news organizations like wsj and nytimes were "standard" on HN. So they get special treatment - even when the articles are behind paywalls or post clickbait nonsense.